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Happy editing! -ßottesiηi ^(talk) 16:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I left a message on the Fight Club talk page for you - at the very bottom - regarding real life fight clubs.ProfJeFF 04:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Colm, further to your ceist about the above, here is the article. As I said on Talk:Kevin_Myers, if you are in any Irish university you should be able to access all issues of The Irish Times on Lexus Nexus Professional, on the Library homepage:

Copyright 2004 The Irish Times The Irish Times

December 17, 2004

SECTION: Opinion; An Irishman's Diary; Pg. 17

LENGTH: 931 words

HEADLINE: An Irishman's Diary

BYLINE: Kevin Myers

BODY: One curious inversion of reality in Irish life is the view that the inhabitant of the Big House is somehow to be envied. Rubbish. If I heard that I'd inherited such a property, I'd promptly go out and buy a box of matches and a can of paraffin.

Big Houses are hell. Proof of that is that virtually without exception, somewhere within all those draughts, there is the equivalent of a Rathfarnham semi-detached, a little living area which precisely replicates a suburban home's dimensions and character.

The Big House burns money. It leaks. It is freezing. Most of all, the Big House is lonely: for when you stand at your front door beneath your leaking gutters you see no people, only hundreds of trees requiring a tree surgeon, and a mile of drive in need of re-laying.

Perhaps Sir Josslyn Gore-Booth, ninth baronet, often felt like that as he peered out of Lissadell during his few gallant years in the house. There is no point in calling him Anglo-Irish. He was English, and it is enormously to his credit that he returned to the family home after his aunt Aideen died in 1994. But in time, he proved unequal to the struggle - and who can blame him? What friendships, what congenial company are possible when you are an Englishman marooned at the end of a long, dripping driveway in Sligo? And so the link between the family and the house finally ended, as chronicled by Dermot James in his splendid The Gore-Booths of Lissadell, (Woodfield Press), just published. No family has a natural right to live in a particular house for ever, and I feel no emotion whatever that destiny had drawn the two apart: it is the working of that destiny which is so interesting, and which makes Dermot's study a minor classic of the Big House genre.

If you live in the Big House, people will usually believe the worst of you. For example, in the 1830s, Sir Robert Gore-Booth decided to evict some tenants because he felt that their plots were too small: well, he would say that, wouldn't he? But not merely did he compensate them for the acquisition of their land, he also personally chartered a ship, the Pomona, to take them to Canada. It is not an entirely wholesome story - but nor is it a wholly terrible one either.

Though the Pomona completed its journey safely, a rumour soon circulated that it had been lost with all hands, and the rumour has survived to this day. Tim Pat Coogan's and George Morrison's account of the Civil War reports of the Pomona that the "whole shipload of emigrants was drowned within sight of shore." Jacqueline van Voris's biography of Constance Markievicz declared that the vessel had a fiendish captain and a false bottom, and the skipper - rather gallantly to my mind - was so determined to finish off these pesky Irish peasants that he perished in the task. The equally silly Diana Norman maintained that the Pomona was a coffin-ship, which sank with all lives. "Perhaps not surprisingly," she opined darkly, "no evidence for this survives in the family papers." Not surprisingly indeed, for the Pomona continued to ply back and forth across the Atlantic for years to come - which did not prevent local historian Joe McGowan recently printing a ballad about the sinking, while the broken-hearted young people of Sligo watched their loved ones perish.

Of course, the most famous holder of the Gore-Booth name was Constance Markievicz, whose own account of her plucky conduct on being sentenced to death in 1916 has entered Irish nationalist mythology.

Dermot James has retrieved the record of the prosecuting counsel, William Wylie KC, who bizarrely went on to become a High Court judge in the new state. Wylie spoke well of some of the 1916 leaders, admiring their bravery, dignity and demeanour.

But of Markievicz he wrote: "she crumpled up completely, crying. 'I'm only a woman, and you cannot shoot a woman, you must not shoot a woman' . . . she was literally crawling, I won't say any more, it revolts me." Of course, this same woman had no trouble shooting poor unarmed Constable Lahiff dead in St Stephen's Green. Yes, she revolts me too - but not for pleading for her life (an eminently sensible policy, and one I would certainly emulate) but for her triumphalist murderousness ("I shot him, I shot him," she gleefully screamed beside Lahiff's body) and her insufferable vanity.

It wasn't the Gore-Booth status as Protestant gentry which was their undoing, but a combination of Hitler, Churchill and unbelievably bad luck. In the next generation of Gore-Booths, Brian, a sub-lieutenant in the British navy, was killed when his destroyer, HMS Exmouth, was torpedoed in January 1940.

Churchill's military lunacies were so numerous and so abominable that the calamity at Leros three years later cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered his most infamous - but it's up there, nonetheless.

He ordered the British army to invade the Greek island, without air-cover, and the entire task force, including a battalion of Royal Irish Fusiliers, was either killed or captured in a German counter-attack. Amongst the dead was Captain Hugh Gore-Booth.

Meanwhile Michael, first-born and heir, had become gravely mentally ill, and was made a ward of court. The court's administration of the Lissadell estate - either through dishonesty or ineptitude: what, in this country? - became a national scandal, and inflicted grievous wounds on both the house and the family fortune, from which neither fully recovered.

It is an extraordinary, quite riveting story, and one which has found a quite splendid teller in Dermot James.

LOAD-DATE: December 17, 2004

Hey! I saw your question on the Fight Club talk page as well as that guys response on your talk page. Anyway;;;

I don't know much to say about this but. Just because there may not be real records about certain events does not mean there aren't any. Check out Wiki's article on Snuff Films. Films depicting murders for the sole purpose of profit. Not capturing someones death on tape, like the hanging of Sadam or anything but going out and killing osmeone and selling the video recordings of it. THere are a lot of debates that they aren't real but I never got into those arguments because I see things differently. I'm sure SOMEWHERE in our huge WORLD.. someone has recording themself murdering someone and reproduced it and sold it. I tie that in because like I said, just because there's no documentation on a real life fight club doesn't mean there isn't any. I liked your question because I for one have started one with my friends. It's not as BRutal or anyting as the book or novel make it out to be because we're still kids. We can't go home with broken teeth or noses that costs money to fix, ha, right? Basically what we did was we all met at this abandoned church, in the back of it was where an old playground used to be and it was all rock. We'd take our shoes off and shirts, like the novel and we'd fight, one at a time. We could fight basically anyway we deemed practical except like I said, mostly face shots. It was very fun and a great way to just escape from things and we always felt better after it, we felt alive. We had a set group of friends who would meet and no one would talk about it or tell anyoen else about it. We did talk about it at the church though and often debated whether or not to bring someone else in to join us. In a way we did base it on the movie, and it may not have been big or anything, but there are fight clubs out there. (-Kid. 15:56, 14 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Lorenzo Marini, from its old location at User:Ryancolm/Lorenzo Marini. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. TheImaCow (talk) 10:36, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, Rick, for reviewing the article. Ryancolm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.36.182.17 (talk) 06:09, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]